Yesterday, Skype announced a preview of Skype for Outlook.com (which should be available now for users in the UK, and will be coming to the US and Germany soon, and then the rest of the world “this summer”).  Hot on …

Ever since Microsoft bought Skype two years ago, we’ve been expecting more and more integration between the messaging service and Microsoft’s online properties.  Today’s announcement, that a preview of Skype integration into Outlook.com is another step along that path, …

Microsoft just released a new ad for Windows Phones, one that takes a light-hearted look at the battle playing out between Samsung/Android and Apple iPhone users, with Windows Phone shown as perhaps a saner alternative.

The ad campaign plays off …

Two weeks ago, Bing released a “significant” set of updates to its Windows 8 suite of apps (News, Maps, Finance, Sports, and Travel), and promised an update to the Weather app, too, “over the course of the coming days”.

Well …

Looks like Bing is trying again with an aggregation service for “deals”, or in this case, “offers”.  A post on the Bing Search blog today announced the beta launch of Bing Offers, available in the US, which:

aggregates deals

If you’re like us, you’re unable to log in to Skype using your Microsoft account credentials right now.  We first noticed the problem this evening, getting an error message when we tried to log in:

A quick check of Twitter …

So if there’s any doubt that Microsoft has some issues when it comes to making a connection with consumers, a new post over at Business Insider (and picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate) pretty much sums up …

Rumors that Xbox would hold a pre-event to what we’re expecting to be a blockbuster E3 this year to tease the next generation of Xbox look to have nailed it as a blog post on Major Nelson’s blog and some …

It’s already been 6 months since the first Surface RTs appeared in the marketplace, and ever since then, consumers in markets around the world have been asking to be able to purchase a Surface RT or Surface Pro in their …

Microsoft opened MicrosoftStore.com in 2009, and since then, it’s gone from selling downloadable versions of Windows and Office in 5 countries to selling “a wide variety of Microsoft products and services” in 228 markets worldwide.

Today, as announced in a …